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...Republicans and the Democrats believe in ancestor worship. Last week the G.O.P. made its annual bow to the shade of Lincoln; this week the Democrats will honor their heavenly twins, Jefferson and Jackson. Harry Truman would make his obeisance to tradition by sitting down with a repentant Jim Farley at the Democrats' Jackson-Jefferson Day dinner in Washington...
Despite the return of Big Jim Farley after two campaigns on the sidelines, Democrats would meet in a somber mood. The hyphen symbolized their dilemma. Few would dispute Harry Truman's descent from Andrew Jackson, the party regular. But angry Southern Democrats, smarting under the President's civil rights program, believed that he no longer had any right to claim Thomas Jefferson. In Mississippi last week, 5,000 local rebels gathered to brandish the Confederate flag and issue a secession call for all "true, white Jeffersonian Democrats...
...Notably: James A. Farley (TIME, June 23), Henry Morgenthau Jr. (TIME, Sept. 29), James F. Byrnes (TIME, Oct. 20), Henry L. Stimson (TIME, Jan. 5), Cordell Hull (TIME, Jan. 12). * From Morgenthau's memoirs: "I remember John Garner turning to me one day in Cabinet meeting and saying, half jokingly, half not, 'Damn you old moneybags. Until you came along Mrs. Garner and I averaged 16% a year on our money, and now we can't get better than...
...fact, if you are an American college graduate and your last name begins with the letters "Fa" (Farley, Farmer, etc.), you have probably already received the questionnaire we sent you. For, in order to do the survey accurately we asked the presidents of the 1,200-odd U.S. colleges and universities to let us have the names and addresses of their "Fa" graduates (this sample proved to be representative in TIME'S earlier study of college graduates...
...Boston last night Phillips Ketchum '06, partner in the law firm of Herrick, Smith, Donald, Farley, and Ketchum, made one early declaration that under the broadly-defined provisions of the bill, which would render criminal the employment of subversives in educational institutions, "those supporting the United Nations, labor unions, and efforts to curtail racial discrimination" would all be suspect...